Privacy law

right to privacy is a legal argument used in cases involving public and private actions that are deemed a threat to the privacy of an individual. The origin of the right to privacy argument is often attributed to the U.S. constitution specifically the fourth amendment. According to the constitution scholar Peter Irons ( 2006) in addition to the fourth amendment, the first, third, fifth and ninth amendments included specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights that created zones of privacy that…

Agency was not able to keep his personal digital content private, can anyone expect their email to be protected from law enforcement without a warrant? Why should anyone have to face such embarrassment about their personal life when it’s not affecting their career? Whether there’s enough protection against obtaining someone information has always been a huge debate with digital privacy. Finding that the director of CIA was having an affair can be seen as a small offense, but what if information…

Informatics Electronic Health records: A boon or privacy nightmare? Health records are supposed to be private and secure. This article shows how not all health records end up being private and secure. Health records were stored in different ways. People were trying to steal private information. Then you had people that didn't know they could be committing a crime and saw it as no big deal.Health records were supposed to be secure years ago and now. If health records were put in the wrong…

Urbanization and the introduction of advanced technology have altered the meaning of and value of privacy; instead of seclusion and publicity being two separate, binary entitles, staying in control of personal information has become a negotiation. Charles Fried, a Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, argues that privacy is a “basic right” that allows individuals to define their relationships with others (478-479). In their article about the experiences of young people online,…

Big Brother and Government Surveillance Big Brother is a fictional character and idea in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. It stands for the idea that there is someone that holds power observing and monitoring everyone and their activities to keep control. Even though this is a fictional character and ideal in a novel, since it was published this has been a term people use when they are talking about government surveillance and the ways the government watches everyone. Government Surveillance…

Though the technology of RFID tags does not put everyone in immediate danger, it does present risk to personal privacy. In Alejandro Martinez’s article, “Privacy concerns grow with the use of RFID tags,” he shows the reader the incredible benefits of the technology, as well as Ozer’s example of the technology being used for kidnapping. Yet, the problem is not with RFID tags themselves, but with the almost none-existent boundary between legal and illegal use. RFID tags, like non-military drones,…

contributed to a vast amount of contradictions between law enforcement agencies and its citizens. Today’s technological advances have allowed society as a whole to advance tremendously, however these technological advances bring drawbacks as well. The use of drones has advanced drastically in which lawmakers struggle to come up with a law that promotes technological advances without effecting the rights of citizens like the fourth Amendment. Local law enforcement authorities have begun utilizing…

Americans are not entitled to privacy. The topic of privacy has been a widely discussed topic for centuries in the United States. The one that argues that government surveillance is unconstitutional has not fully read and analyzed the document in its entirety. The word privacy is not written once throughout the entire constitution. America is known as the “free world” and without the government’s use of its resources to protect the free world, the average American will no longer be able to sing…

Electronic Privacy: When Is It Acceptable to Violate? In the twenty-first century, Americans pride themselves in their right to privacy. In fact, they take it for granted. Today, privacy is an expectation. But with the rapidly advancing technology of the modern world, it is also being pushed to its limits. While the Constitution guarantees citizens the right to tangible, materialistic privacy, when it comes to electronic privacy the standards are unclear. This lack of clarification has led to…

know how much power the government has under acts such as the USA Patriot Act and what must be done in order to ensure that the rights of private citizens will be protected. Privacy is a large concern for people not only the United States, but also throughout the world. Using terrorism as an excuse to infringe on the privacy and rights of innocent citizens should not be allowed. Without any checks on the government, government agencies would be allowed to go…